Escape The Coming Night
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • God's final victory
  • Escape The Coming Night
  • Nonacademic, Storytelling Approach to Explain Book of Revelation....
  • "Right up there with 'Dragons, Grasshoppers, & Frogs' as best in class!"
  • A Companion to the Book of Revelation
Escape The Coming Night
David Jeremiah
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 084994368X

Book Description

No one can deny that the world is in trouble. Tragedy stalks our streets. Violence and bloodshed fill the news. How do we explain so much chaos? Is there any hope for peace in our time? Dr. David Jeremiah's dramatic narrative on the Book of Revelation answers these and many more challenging questions, by unraveling the imagery and explaining the significance of the events described in the last book of the Bible. Within its pages are the hope and encouragement we need to lift us from the gloom of present events to the promise of a brilliant future.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars God's final victory.......2007-06-27

Escape the night is a book that takes some of the mystery out of the book of Revelation. It of course parallels the scripture but helps the reader understand Gods ultimate plan for the world. You should read the book of Revelation but if you are struggling, this work by Dr. David Jeremiah will be of great help!

5 out of 5 stars Escape The Coming Night.......2007-01-04

I got so much from this book that I ordered it for a 90 year old Christian friend. She tells me that it is the best book on prophecy that she has ever read and she keeps going back to it.

4 out of 5 stars Nonacademic, Storytelling Approach to Explain Book of Revelation...........2006-08-18

Dr. Jeremiah in this book, as in his Turning Point television broadcast, uses anecdoctes in explaining scriptural truth, in this case the book of Revelation. Even though Jeremiah is right on theologically, his story-telling style might be frustrating for readers who want to get straight to the verses, word study, context, and just a more academic approach to understanding Revelation. On the other hand, people who enjoy Bible-based fiction or those who just don't want to strain their brain with study, might appreciate being introduced to Revelation through this book. If you like this book, I'd recommend Jeremiah's HANDWRITING ON THE WALL, which is a similar style commentary on the Old Testament book of Daniel, and which would actually be helpful to read first, since some of Revelation is based on Daniel. For those wanting a more academic approach to Revelation, I recommend Ryrie's more academic REVELATION as accessible to the beginner, and still more detailed would be the commentaries of Walvoord, Robert Thomas, or even Newell. All of these, like Jeremiah, hold to the conservative, evangelical "pre-trib, pre-mil" endtimes view that the rapture will take place before ("pre") a 7-year tribulation before a literal millial (i.e., 1000 years) reign of Messiah on Earth.

5 out of 5 stars "Right up there with 'Dragons, Grasshoppers, & Frogs' as best in class!".......2005-12-18


While not every word of the tape series in contained in the book, this book is nevertheless one of the best on Revelation. Until I read "Dragons, Grasshoppers, & Frogs", I thought this was the easiest commentary on the book. But "Dragons" is specifically written for teens and newbies, and is quite a bit more practical and better organized.

Jeremiah is premillennial and pretribulational. If you are not of that persuasion, you will be really disappointed--not to mention confused. I am, so I wasn't.

Highly recommended.

4 out of 5 stars A Companion to the Book of Revelation.......2005-10-09

A companion to the Book of Revelation, ESCAPE THE COMING NIGHT, takes much of the guess-work out of interpreting one of the most difficult books in the Bible. His easy-reading, yet didactic, writing style makes David Jeremiah one of today's most popular experts on prophecy. This book is anything but discouraging and full of doom; on the contrary, it is full of hope for those who understand its message. J. Lawyer
Night Diving
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A recommended novel
  • Healing Feminist Literature
  • A New Writer to Watch
  • A Novel of Life, Love, and Growing Up Not to be Missed
  • a touching story
Night Diving
Michelene Esposito
Manufacturer: Spinsters Ink Books
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ASIN: 1883523524

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Night Diving is both a young woman's coming-out story and a 30-something coming-of-age journey that proves you can go home again. It is the story of Rose Salino, a thirty-year-old woman living the San Francisco chic lesbian lifestyle, who loses her job as a chef and her lover on the same day. The next day her grandmother dies and in the course of returnng to her hometown for a funeral, she sees her childhood best friend and first love, Jessie. They begin to rekindle their friendship, which later becomes a romance. Through a series of crises Rose is forced to look at her life and find the courage to create a future that is true to her real self and her heart.

The story is also a family saga. Rose's mother is manic-depressive and much of the first half of the novel is focused on Rose's understanding of and coping with her mother's period of illness. These sections also highlight Rose and Jessie's relationship as young girls, including Jessie's wild acting-out in response to her father's sexual abuse. In the end, with the support of friends and the hard lessons born from life's challenges, Rose takes the risks to create a life she wants rather than the life she thinks she's "supposed to have."

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A recommended novel.......2007-05-26

From the book back cover:
"Rose Salino is living the perfect lesbian-chic lifestyle in San Francisco. But then she loses both her lover and her job on the same day. Twenty-four hours later, her grandmother dies and so Rose must journey home for the funeral.
Once there, she meets up with Jessie, her best friend from childhood - and her very first love. Through the crises she faces, Rose is forced to look at her life and find the courage to create a future that is true to her self and to her heart.
Will Rose take the risks necessary to create the life she wants - rather than the life she thinks she's "supposed to have"?"

When she was nine Rose's world fell apart as her mother got sick with manic-depression. Now at thirty she is again seeing her carefully controlled world fall apart, and is forced to look at her life. In Night Diving, Rose dives into her past and tells us of her childhood and of growing up with her best friend Jessie, who like her is the product of a dysfunctional family. But the question Rose has to face in the book is how to find the courage to finally take risks, in order to move out of her carefully constructed controlled life into the world of possibilities that a life with Jessie represents.
Night Diving deals with issues such as mental illness, sexual abuse and cancer but Esposito manages to keep her writing balanced and with enough sense of humour so that the book doesn't turn into a melodrama. I highly recommend this book.

5 out of 5 stars Healing Feminist Literature.......2004-10-01

While dealing with difficult and disturbing issues like breast cancer, incest, alcoholism and homophobia, "Night Diving" is nevertheless not so much a depressing book about victims, as it is a joyous book about survivors. "Night Diving" is an empowering read, which will touch your heart, make you weep and make you laugh. Like all the wonderful, feminist novels from Spinster's Ink, it is a stellar book!

4 out of 5 stars A New Writer to Watch.......2004-09-13

Written in a first person narrative, Night Diving follows thirty year old Rose Salino, as she heads home to Long Island to attend the funeral of her grandmother. While there she runs into her childhood friend and first love, Jessie. Seeing her childhood haunts and her old friend brings up painful memories for Rose as she comes to terms with the effect her childhood fears have had on her as an adult.

If all of that sounds like a terrible downer, never fear, Micheline Esposito injects the whole thing with her distinctive wry sense of humor. Even with the serious subject matter at the heart of the book, I found myself laughing out loud through most of it. Micheline Esposito has a way of describing Rose's life that reminded me of David Sedaris and his darkly comedic essays on his wacky life and family.

So if you're looking for a book that will make you cry but laugh while you're doing it, give Night Diving a shot. I liked it well enough that I'll be on the lookout for more of Micheline Esposito's work.

5 out of 5 stars A Novel of Life, Love, and Growing Up Not to be Missed.......2004-07-30

In Rose Salino's life, bad things happen in threes: she's dumped by her lover, loses her job (because she worked with her lover at a restaurant she had always considered "ours" - which wasn't), and then her grandmother dies necessitating a flight from San Francisco to her childhood home in Long Island, NY. And so begins a journey in the present as well as in the past.

Rose's first person tale is bookended by events in the present, while the bulk of the novel tells the story of her youth. In a crisp, fresh, and often funny voice, she tells of her early struggles with her manic-depressive mother, of feeling alone and outside the pale during her school years, and most of all, of her friendship with Jessie who not only had a screwed up mother similar to Rose's, but also carried hidden wounds of traumatic abuse.

Much of Rose's description of her childhood is moving, and with her fine prose, Esposito never lapses into melodrama. "I was nine the first time my mother got sick, leaving me with an emptiness that clawed at me like some little trapped animal. It was as if some faceless man had taken her away in the middle of the night and because I could not yet feel where she ended and I began, had taken me with them. I awoke one morning to find her shell and a hugeness that grew louder and louder and more panicky inside me. The first aloneness" (p. 34).

The way Rose attempts to make sense of her world, to grow up, to find a place for herself is by terms touching and comical. I laughed out loud when Rose describes her friend's enormous Newfoundland dog: "She was, I was sure, some mix of black bear and water buffalo, definitely bigger and heavier than me, with long black fur and a mouth I envisioned snapping off my leg in one jagged bloody chomp" (p. 22).

Esposito has a delightful sense of timing as well as the ability to evoke character, particularly Rose's, in ways that kept me glued to the book. For instance, at her grandmother's funeral, she nervously connects back up with childhood friend Jessie, and thinks this: "I can't even tell you why I'm so damn nervous except that I don't know where to start. You can't start from where you left off because that was a dozen years ago and you end up feeling like William Randolph Hearst clutching a sled, rocking back and forth in some dark room, whispering, 'Rosebud, Rosebud'" (p. 116). Esposito's ability to juxtapose flashes of comedy into the story is illuminating in the way that unexpected lightning allows for brief glimpses into dark places.

By the time the events of the past catch up with the quandaries and disasters of the present, it's clear that Rose has the ability to rise above her circumstances-but will she make the right choices in order to do so? She has the possibility of a life with Jessie, but can she let go of her hang-ups and really communicate with the people she loves? "Love is knowing a person's tender spots, the places where the skin is transparent, not fully formed, like the clear membrane that holds a yolk round even after you separate it from the white. Love is standing guard over a beloved's yolk" (p. 219). Musings like that are just lovely and endeared Rose to me forever. How she gets to the point where she can stand over someone else's yolk, much less her own, makes for a wonderful story. This is a book that shouldn't be missed. ~Lori L. Lake, reviewer for The Independent Gay Writer and Midwest Book Review

4 out of 5 stars a touching story.......2004-01-06

It is clear that Esposito is a therapist because there is a lot of talk about therapy in this novel. And she throws a lot of issues--cancer, family relationships, career, friendships, romance, incest--into one little novel. But, somehow she makes it all work. Jessie and Rose have a compelling friendship/relationship, and the friends and family that are in their lives are also interesting. Most refreshingly, Jessie's father isn't depicted as the big, bad wolf. He's just human like the rest of us.
Morning Has Been All Night Coming
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Simple read about a complex question
  • Very uplifting
  • This book is a great source of inspiration...
  • Gives me hope
  • a magnificent book on love and god.
Morning Has Been All Night Coming
John Harricharan
Manufacturer: Aquarian Press
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ASIN: 1855383918

Book Description

When the road seems long and dark...A message of strength and renewal for us all.

The light of hope vanished in John when his wife died, leaving him with two children to raise and the rest of his life to rethink. Surrounded by a haze of emptiness and futility, he could only dimly recall the joys of his former existenceand the strange, miraculous encounters he had once had with a wise "businessman" named Gideon.

Then the light reappeared as Gideon returned, introducing john to magical new worlds of inner peace, understanding and love. Slowly, and almost despite himself, John felt his grief turning to hope, his despair to trimuph, and his worries to a playful curiosity about what lay ahead.

In this intimate story of loss, devastation and rebirth, John Harricharan mystically blends personal experience with parable to reawaken the infinite beauty, compassion and power, which exist within us all.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Simple read about a complex question.......2001-02-12

John Harricharan's books are extremely enjoyable for all readers. John writes in simple language about what might be the most important question for all of us...Is life over when we die? Having lost a love one, I have searched this question often. Being a very analytical person, I needed a practical answer. John's stories provide not only an explanation but also forces the readers to do more "soul" searching on their own to find answers to not only this question but to many of the questions we have.

Readers will find it difficult to put John's books down.

5 out of 5 stars Very uplifting.......2000-09-30

John Harricharan brings us a book full of hope. If you like Richard Bach (especially ILLUSIONS and JONATHAN LIVINGSTONG SEAGULL), you'll like John Harricharan. Few books have inspired me as much as ILLUSIONS, but IF YOU CAN WALK ON WATER TAKE THE BOAT and MORNING HAS BEEN ALL NIGHT COMING are two that have. Full of wisdom, inspiration and hope.

5 out of 5 stars This book is a great source of inspiration..........2000-05-21

I have read over 35 books on Motivation, Inspiration and self-help, and I have rarely read any book that is as good as John Harricharan's book "The Morning Has Been All Night Coming". This book deals with many questions that many of us have. This book also reveals a whole new "you" to you. You will learn through this book much about the way how God is and who you truly are!

This book is a good resource for your spiritual growth. It is written in universal style so you can be from any religion and you will still find this book a good resource. This book will answer most of your questions concerning the life and death.

If you have read any books from Neale Donald Walsch, I am sure that you will love this book.

This book is a good investment for your future. I am sure that you will love this book, and it will comfort you through your journey to success.

I strongly recommend this book.

5 out of 5 stars Gives me hope.......2000-04-18

I thought I had problems... till I read this book. The author covers the gamut-loss, failure, relationships, prosperity. Yet, he comes through it all with a feeling of purpose and divine protection. It's a "When bad things happen to good people" with a positive message. No matter what problem you may have, this book offers hope and inspiration... I highly recommend it.

5 out of 5 stars a magnificent book on love and god........1999-03-05

This book was an enriching experience, a must for all. in the book we meet god and the conversation is simply amazing. God tells us that he is ONE and it is us humans who have so ruthlesly torn him to bits.
The Coming of the Night (Rechy, John)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Rechy's mosting disappointing and retch inducing novel
  • Compelling, Dark, Haunting - A True Perspective of Gay 1981
  • C...-ola...
  • Best gay read for a long time
  • Haunting, beautifully written
The Coming of the Night (Rechy, John)
John Rechy
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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ASIN: 0802137423

Book Description

John Rechy's new novel is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling City of Night and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world -- gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1981, a summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Young, beautiful Jesse is celebrating one year on the dazzling gay scene and plans to lose himself completely in its transient pleasures. He is joined by Dave, a leatherman bent on testing limits. A young hustler, an opera lover lost in fantasies of youth, a gang of teenagers looking for trouble -- as the Santa Ana winds breathe fire down the hills of Los Angeles, stirring up desires and violence, these men circle ever closer to a confrontation as devastating as it is inevitable. Lyrical, humorous, and compassionate, The Coming of the Night proves again that as a novelist and chronicler of gay life John Rechy has no equal. "The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy's sizzling literary response, The Coming of Night is as exciting as it is chilling." -- Pamela Warrick, Los Angeles Times; "[Rechy] very nearly touches greatness . . . feeling his way toward that place within each of us where the ecstatic teeters on the edge of psychic abyss. . . . A substantial artist." -- Frank Browning, Salon.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Rechy's mosting disappointing and retch inducing novel.......2006-03-21

Open this book to any page and you'll be bombarded with one graphic, gratuitous, poorly written, laugh out loud sex scene after another (Oh yeah baby give it to me, that's it like that . . . seriously that's how inane the dialogue is). Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Rechy's and some of his work is downright brilliant. I loved City of Night, This Day's Death, The Fourth Angel and especially Bodies and Souls. However, The Coming of the Night is a thinly vieled excuse for straight up porn.

I went into the novel excited, thinking Rechy would have something profound to express about gay life before "the coming of the night", a metaphor for the AIDS epidemic. Instead I was bombarded with episodic sexcapades of several loosely connected one dimensional characters. The sections involving Clint, haunted by and trying to escape from the mysterious "cancer" killing off his friends in New York; Orville, a handsome gay black male trying to get by in the predominantly white gay community and Thomas, a lonely single "old queen" who just wants to be loved were the only compelling and interesting characters to me. As an ardent supporter of AIDS awareness and a gay black male getting up there in age, these characters could have really got a message across. Instead they, and the rest of the novel, are squandered away under the weight of the grossly explicit sex scenes that appear on EVERY page.

Other characters were pointless. Za-Za LaGrand's sections (a thinly veiled reference to porn director Chi Chi LaRue) were utterly pointless and did nothing to further the plot along. Dave, the sado-masochist leather biker man and Ernie, the body builder with endowment issues were one dimensional characters I could care less about and Buzz, Boo and Fredo, the homophobe gay bashing punks were predictable and boring.

It's sad that this novel is so bad because it really had a lot of potential to get across some extremely powerful messages. Instead of focusing on the characters, fleshing them out so I could care for them, Rechy gets too wrapped up in the sex scenes, the majority of which are poorly written with some of the worst dirty talk dialogue I have ever read. Read this only if you've read every Jackie Collins novel and long for a dirtier gay version of what she does. Rechy must have wrote this for the money because it really stinks. PU.

5 out of 5 stars Compelling, Dark, Haunting - A True Perspective of Gay 1981.......2003-06-24

Wow! This is one of the better books that I have picked up in quite some time. Becoming an adult in the mid 80's, immediately after the AIDS epidemic changed the way we live, it was quite obvious that things would never be the same as they had been. This book is a brilliant representation of perspective and fate -showing how in the course of a day, unconnected lives can interface and brief moments and decisions can alter one's future forever. This book touches on a myriad of personalities and help give the reader insight to behaviors that are fueled by insecurity, vanity, empowerment, domination, loneliness, anger, etc. It was raw, dark and clearly descriptive of urban gay life prior to the mid 80's. Despite its graphic and poignant sexual content, ANY reader will have to appreciate the way the author constructs and implements this story with seamless transitions and expertly developed characters. Keep an open mind and you will see a master author at his finest.

1 out of 5 stars C...-ola..........2003-04-07

Ok what was the point of this book? It was nothing more than a study of oversexed, kinky, S&M-obsessed perverts throughout the course of a windy day in Los Angeles. Rechy's overused symbol of the "Sant'Anas" was eventually annoying and his pervasive sexual language and scenarios had no artistic merit whatsoever and no purpose other than thoroughly grossing out this (gay) reader. Save your time and read a true gay masterpiece- "Dancer From the Dance"- instead. I regret picking this one up.

5 out of 5 stars Best gay read for a long time.......2002-12-03

John Rechy has written a superb novel full of memorable characters. The cross section of the gay community is strong and believable as are the other characters. A novel of people indulging on the brink of an unknown disaster at the time makes for a significant and perhaps historical account of gay life before the AIDS epidemic. As usual strong writing, great sex and a dash of humour. A must for any gay bookshelf.

5 out of 5 stars Haunting, beautifully written.......2001-03-02

I read this novel in one sitting, into the night. The way the novel is structured, it keeps you moving from one character to another, reticent to leave one, and then eager to meet the next one. It is almost orchestrated in its form, and in the rhythms of the language--a different style for each of the dozen or so characters. The honesty in the novel might make some people flinch, but that is only an indication of how unsparing and truthful it is, capturing the excitement of a past time, as well as the unforeseen dangers. Rechy is especially effective in his recording of the so-called S&M scene--obviously he has known it and now explores it with brutal candor, as it is. Beyond its subject, the novel asserts why Rechy is today considered one of our foremost writers.
Night Is Gone, Day Is Still Coming: Stories and Poems by American Indian Teens and Young Adults
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • EXCELLENT
Night Is Gone, Day Is Still Coming: Stories and Poems by American Indian Teens and Young Adults

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ASIN: 0763615188
Release Date: 2003-07-14

Book Description

The voices of fifty-seven young American Indians emerge in a powerful collection of original writing coedited by the anthologist of YOU HEAR ME? and THINGS I HAVE TO TELL YOU.

When the night isgone and the day isstill coming,we will be taken awayfrom this earth.We will be rising asthe next generationis coming.- from "Next Generations" by Marcia Blacksmith, age thirteen, Crow, LakotaOpen this revelatory anthology of poetry, prose, and memoir and listen to the voices of today’s young American Indians, ages eleven to twenty-two, from many nations across the country: A young man pines for his "fry bread queen" in a comically honest take on unrequited love. Another teen tells of a "carbonation dance," his summer ritual of crushing returnable Coke cans with his grandfather. Some express typical teenage angst. Others share glimpses of their culture’s unique traditions and beliefs. And many speak of culture clash - such as the homesick "rez girl" riding the New York subway like a "Cochiti carrot in the huge ethnic salad." The chorus assembled between the covers of this essential book sings a song that transcends all borders, seen and unseen.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT.......2004-01-12

The collection of stories and poems by All Nation youth is inspiring and relevant. Here are true voices of Indian youth speaking out unhindered. A great read for teens and adults alike!
Escape The Coming Night Study Guide (Volume 2)
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    Escape The Coming Night Study Guide (Volume 2)

    Manufacturer: Turning Point
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    Living at Night (Coming of Age Series)
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Vivid story, would make a great movie
    • Provocative coming-of-age novel
    • A quiet novel about a young woman that opens your eyes.
    Living at Night (Coming of Age Series)
    Mariana Romo-Carmona
    Manufacturer: Spinsters Ink Books
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    ASIN: 1883523222

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    This first novel by Mariana Romo-Carmona tells the story of Erica Garcia, a Puerto Rican American lesbian who works at an institution for the developmentally disabled in New England. The traditionally shaped, realist narrative describes a young working-class woman's struggles to keep her love life, her political consciousness, and her demanding, underpaid job afloat despite the obstacles. Garcia, who often gets called Gracia by mistake, also has to hold her own as one of few women of color in a mostly white community. By the end of Living at Night, Garcia has learned more about romantic love, the loyalty of friends, and the powerful, unspoken wisdom of the disabled than she ever expected to.

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    4 out of 5 stars Vivid story, would make a great movie.......2000-03-01

    In a gripping, graphic debut novel, Mariana Romo-Carmona presents a vivid look into a young woman's life as an aid in a women's institution. Here the women are constantly sedated and monitored for unexpected incontinence, yet are always treated with respect. Here living at night appears to be the only defense for a Hispanic woman in white Connecticut, surrounded by people who give her a sense of self-worth. Here is a story worth telling, and worth reading.

    4 out of 5 stars Provocative coming-of-age novel.......1998-01-10

    Living at Night draws us into the world of Erica Garcia, a young, working-class Puerto Rican lesbian searching for her niche in the world in WASP-y Connecticut, despite the pressures of satisfying the expectations of family, lovers, and friends. Erica's unresolved anguish over her mother's illness causes her to drop out of college and work as a nurse's aide at an institution for developmentally disabled persons. In stunning, frank language, the author describes ERica's interactions with her charges, who often are kept sedated on mega-doses of drugs and whose every action and bodily function are duly monitored, but who stubbornly maintain their dignity and assert their individuality in a sterile environment. Though Erica comes to realize that she may not be able to rescue all who languish in institutions, she can take charge of her own life, and in so doing, ensure that the world is a better place for those she cares about most.

    4 out of 5 stars A quiet novel about a young woman that opens your eyes........1997-12-03

    Erica García is a young, working-class, coffee-drinking Puerto Rican lesbiana who drives clunky covertibles, has a girlfriend and works the nigh shift as an aide at the Training School for the Reterded. This novel, Mariana's first, explores the protagonist's familial, economic, cultural and lesbian connections by focusing on Erica's inner world while she lives at night, cleaning, and caring for the residents in the ward. The prose is clean and fluid throughout the novel; the writing is at its best when Erica drives along the New England countryside and reflects upon her life while connecting with the seasons. It's a quiet, well-crafted novel about a young woman's seemingly simple life that opens your eyes to her inner motivations and to the situation in institutions. The author is one of the few Latina lesbians writing novels in English in this country.
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